AMKAS NEPAL 2016

Aaprabasi Mahila Kamdar Samuha (AMKAS) or the Returnee Women Migrant Workers’ Group, is a civil society organization led and run by returnee women migrant workers. Established in 2016 by a group of well-known and experience Nepali migrant rights’ activist, AMKAS pushes for the rights and interest of Nepali migrant workers, in the home and the destination countries, on the ground that ‘Migrant Rights are Human Rights’. AMKAS specializes working with and for the Nepali women workers: both domestic and migrants. AMKAS has been widely recognized as a pioneer organization working in the field despite short period of its existence.

Vision
We at AMKAS envision of a just world where Nepali women workers are self-reliant with full equality, dignity and respect in terms of gender, social, cultural, economic and political aspects in Nepal and elsewhere.

Mission
We strive to build capacity of Nepali women workers through regular policy advocacy, knowledge creation, awareness generation, and experimenting and spreading of innovative ideas and methods for a sound employment sector.

Objectives
AMKAS works to achieve the following objectives:

To organize returnee women migrant workers so as to strengthen the collective bargaining of migrant workers issues at the local, provincial, national, regional and global level.

To ensure rights of women workers are respected, fulfilled, guaranteed and protected through women workers friendly policy environment, and its proper implementation.

To design and implement innovative plans, programs and actions on widening the scope of awareness generation, ethical recruitment practices, research and publications, and strengthening livelihood and re-integration
of the women workers at the ground level.

To develop partnership and liaison with national and international bodies towards a unified voices for the rights and interest of the migrant workers and their families.